Showing posts with label traditional family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional family. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2015

Highly Recommended: Sarah Posner's Just-Published Essay on Duggars' Close Ties to Discredited IBLP Ministry of Bill Gothard

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A very important essay to which I'd like to point you: Sarah Posner's exhaustively researched investigation of the ties of t...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Amanda Marcotte on How Ashley Madison Leaks Demonstrate What Christian Conservatives' "Traditional Marriage" Is All About

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Amanda Marcotte notes how the Ashley Madison leaks have shown us all over again what conservative Christians mean when they talk abo...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Did Gay Marriage Cause Ashley Madison? Taking the Arguments of Folks Like Ross Douthat to Their Logical Conclusion

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Did gay marriage cause Ashley Madison? Has permitting same-sex couples to marry caused millions of heterosexual folks to cheat on the...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and Ashley Madison Revelations: Commentary I Find Worth Reading

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A selection for you this morning (blossoms or weeds? — you please decide) from things I've been reading about the revelation that, wh...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Marriage, Bible, Catholics, Women's Rights, Recovering from Religious Trauma, Pope Francis and Women

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Things I'm reading as this week ends — these items all connected in that they talk about issues of religion in the public square:
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Mormons Celebrating Pope Francis's Affirmation of Traditional Family Values: Wait, What?

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Big headline in Salt Lake City's Deseret News  yesterday:
Monday, July 7, 2014

Another Reprise: Margaret Farley's Challenge to Make Love of Gay Persons Just in Christian Churches, and the Vatican Synod on the Family

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Here's a reprise of another sort today: I published the excerpt below (from Margaret Farley's book Just Love ) on November ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Vatican Document on the Pastoral Challenges of Family: "Gospel of the Family" and the Bible (but Where's the Good News?!)

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When I first wrote about the document recently prepared by the Vatican as a foundation for discussion of family life at the upcomin...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

"Traditional" Family and the Bible: Snapshots from Recent Discussions of the Topic

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Matthew 12: 46-48 In her recent book, How the West Really Lost God , Mary Eberstadt argues that the decline of the traditional fami...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Wisconsin Judge Crabb to Defenders of Traditional Marriage: You Do Understand That Polygamy Is the Tradition You're Defending, Right?

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Federal Judge Barbara Crabb in her ruling yesterday  (pdf file) striking down the Wisconsin ban on same-sex marriage:
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Holly Welker on Why It Makes Sense for a Religious Commentary Blogsite to Pay Attention to Mormons

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Holly Welker on why it makes sense for a blog like Religion Dispatches to include a Mormon blogger like herself, when Mormons repr...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Book Notes: Suzanne Berne on Family Values and Morning-in-America Mythology

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Suzanne Berne, The Ghost at the Table (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007):
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Redefining Marriage: A Salient Reminder

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From the Facebook page of Americans Against the Republican Party, a pithy reminder that we've already  redefined marriage.  A long t...
Friday, September 28, 2012

A Reader Writes: "There's a Rich Vein of Understanding about Marriage That Remains to Be Discovered"

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Another stellar comment here in the past few days by boltingmadonna, who writes the following in response to my posting earlier in the ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Nate Phelps on Fred Phelps's Family: "Ideology . . . Supported and Promoted with Violence"

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Nate Phelps's conversation with Dick Gordon at Salon today is noteworthy because of its explanation of how the virus of patriarc...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Pussy Riot and Defense of "Traditional Family Values" (and My Response to Catholic Centrists about Pussy Riot Conviction)

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Vis-a-vis another recent news item about which I blogged a number of days ago-- the sentencing of the Pussy Riot group in Moscow f...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Pictures, Words: Images Capturing Inconvenient Truth

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Ken and Barbie sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g:  Vancouver photographer Dina Goldstein produces a photographic meditation about what...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Josh Weed Story: Heterosexual Marriage as an Ideal for Gays?

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Last week, Josh Weed revealed on his blog that though he's a happily married man (in a heterosexual marriage) with children, his...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Political News: Marriage Equality and Obama, Traditional Marriage, and GOP Goals

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Congressional Religious Freedom Hearings, Feb. 2012 And in recent news commentary (also with religious themes) about the decision o...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Gender Gap in Higher Education in Utah: Women on Bottom

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Writing in today's Salt Lake Tribune , Brian Maffly reports that for years now, women in Utah have not entered or completed colleg...